"What happened Vikram? You look so pale", Akira asked and handed him a bottle of water.
Then with her gaze still fixated on him, she said,
"Keep yourself hydrated. Maybe you can go back in shade in the central arena. Maybe the heat here in this non-air conditioned booth is not suiting you".
Vikram looked at her for a while, unable to understand if that was her real concern or mockery. Nevertheless, he took the water bottle and gulped the entire content because the results had rendered his soul and hurt and parched.
All his plans were getting foiled one after the other.
Raymond seemed to be one step ahead of him always and he wasn't able to understand how that was happening. It was the second time that he had been tricked. But he wasn't going to let that happen the third time.
